CONQUERGOOD & THE CENTER
OF THE INTELLIGIBLE
MYSTERY OF BEING
by
CG Fewston
Science Fiction / Dystopian / Steampunk
Date of Publication: October 17, 2023
Number of Pages: 381 pages
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One of resilience and transformation, Conquergood’s life-changing discovery explores the depths of family, memory, love, and the mysteries that lie at the heart of the universe.
In 2183, Jerome Conquergood is an outcast roaming the abandoned and crumbling skyscrapers of Old York City outside the Korporation’s seductive and dizzying headquarters, a post-apocalyptic security-city for the mega-rich. Despite his hatred for the techno-optimism and the Korporation, Conquergood is compelled to save his mysterious twin brother Vincent by joining the Korporation, a mega-corporate and governmental entity in a world oppressed to peace.
1. I’m an otherwise simple man who enjoys wearing all Adidas because it’s simple, easy, and (for me) fashionable because the outfits can easily match. I don’t want to spend a lot of time thinking about my appearance, and I choose comfort over vanity every time.
2. I enjoy spending my time with my wife, Axton, and we enjoy going to eat at fancy restaurants, going shopping, and traveling. I want to grow old with my wife and have our son Thor return home to us when he’s grown and has a family of his own — things I didn’t have as a young man and still don’t have now as an old man. I want my wife and son to be proud of me and my work as a novelist. This, for me, is the greatest accomplishment I could ever achieve as a writer.
3 & 4. My son Thor and I enjoy building LEGOs together. Among the countless LEGOs we have built, we have built a LEGO Minecraft Village and Thor’s LEGO Hammer, Mjolnir, and he got me the LEGO Typewriter for my birthday, which we will build together once he is only holiday from school.
5. For the productivity part of my writing — the printing of pages, etc. — I live in a Serviced Apartment in China, so it’s a lot like having a private assistant. I can be in my office and message them to print out an academic essay or some obscure research or several images or photos, and as I go back to my work, they will deliver to the outside door of my home, and they know not to disturb me. And when I’m ready, maybe hours later, I can collect the items at the foot of my door.
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| Photo credit: Thor |
The American novelist CG FEWSTON has been a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome (Italy), a Visiting Fellow at Hong Kong’s CityU, & he’s been a member of the Hemingway Society, Americans for the Arts, PEN America, Club Med, & the Royal Society of Literature. He’s also been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) based in London. He has a B.A. in English, an M.Ed. in Higher Education Leadership (honors), an M.A. in Literature (honors), and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Fiction. He was born in Texas in 1979.
Fewston is the author of several short stories and novels. His works include A Father’s Son, The New America: Collection, The Mystic’s Smile ~ A Play in 3 Acts, Vanity of Vanities, A Time to Love in Tehran, Little Hometown, America, A Time to Forget in East Berlin, and Conquergood & the Center of the Intelligible Mystery of Being.
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